We help INDIVIDUALS who want to find more fulfilling careers, and ORGANIZATIONS that want to improve their teamwork and leadership.
Helping people discover their unique strengths and value the differences of others.”
People Type is an Austin-based training, consulting, and career development firm. We specialize in applications of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
Achieving career fulfillment begins with understanding your own assets – your strengths, skills, passions, values, and ideal work environment. Discovering your unique personality type is the most effective way to identify those assets and begin your guided career exploration.
Organizations are composed of unique individuals with unique personality types. Personality type determines the ways that team members communicate, handle conflict, deal with stress, manage change, and work most productively. Employees who can interact productively with different personalities, valuing each other’s differences, are essential for effective teamwork. Discovering your own motivations and learning how to motivate other personality types are essential for effective leadership.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is the best-known, most thoroughly researched, and most trusted personality assessment tool available today. As many as 1.5 million assessments are administered annually to individuals, including to employees of most Fortune 500 companies.
Based on Carl Jung’s Theory of Personality Type, the MBTI identifies the fundamental ways that you recharge your mental energy, gather information, make decisions, and orient to the outer world. These preferences are innate and hard-wired, in much the same way that you are born with a preference for either right or left-handedness. When combined, your preferences form one of sixteen unique personality types, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. No type is inherently better or worse than any others.
By understanding your type, and the type preferences of those around you, you gain powerful insights into maximizing your own effectiveness and your ability to work with others.
The proven benefits of personality type include:
- More fulfilling career direction
- Improved teamwork
- Clearer communications
- Enhanced leadership
- Greater utilization of personal strengths
- Reduced conflicts
- Increased morale
Jeff’s Story
Jeff Johannigman has helped hundreds of professionals find more meaningful and fulfilling careers, and helped numerous organizations build stronger leadership and more cohesive teams:
- As an Outplacement Consultant for DBM and Right Management, Jeff helped employees who were laid off by IBM, Dell, Motorola, Apple, Applied Materials, and numerous other major employers, successfully manage their career transitions and find new opportunities quickly.
- As the Director of Career Services for the University of Texas Ex-Students’ Association, Jeff designed one of the country’s first dedicated alumni career service programs.
- As Manager of Worldwide Staffing for IBM’s Tivoli Systems, he established a college recruiting program that recruited hundreds of college students from dozens of colleges nationwide.
- As a Human Dynamics Trainer for the Texas Workforce Commission, Jeff trained state employees in team building, leadership, customer service, process improvement, time management, stress management, communications, and conflict resolution.
- Jeff founded two successful software companies, and managed numerous high-performance teams, to produce over twenty published computer games.
- Jeff holds a Master of Arts in Human Services from St. Edward’s University, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Cornell University.
- He is an active member of The Association for Talent Development (ATD) and the Austin Career Development Network.
Satisfied Clients
- American Writers & Artists Inc.
- Applied Materials
- The Austin Children’s Shelter
- Austin Community College
- The Center for Health Care Services
- Dell
- Fantastic Magic Camp
- Glimmer of Hope Foundation
- Home Therapy Specialists
- IBM
- Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry
- Motorola
- Otto Kroeger Associates
- RE/MAX Austin
- Reimbursement Consultants Inc.
- St. Edward’s University
- Tarrant County Medical Society Alliance
- Texas A&M University
- The Texas Association of Non-Profit Organizations (TANO)
- Texas D.A.R.E. Institute
- Texas Department of Agriculture
- Texas Department of Assistive and
- Rehabilitative Services
- Texas Instruments
- Texas Medical Association Alliance
- Tivoli Systems
- Travis County Health & Human Services
- The University of Texas
- The University of Texas Ex-Students’ Association (“Texas Exes”)
- Vignette
- Wiley & Sons Publishing
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